Linas Kleiza, the former Nugget who played in Greece last season, has agreed to a four-year, $20 million deal with the Toronto Raptors and will sign the offer sheet today, agent Bill Duffy confirmed this morning.

The Nuggets, already over the salary cap this season, have a week to match the offer, but as of now, Duffy didn’t sense the Nuggets were going to do so.

In Kleiza’s most recent season with Denver (2008-09), the small forward was a key reserve, he averaged 9.9 points per game, and the season prior, he averaged 11.1.

Benjamin Hochman was a sports columnist for The Denver Post until August 2015 before leaving for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his hometown newspaper. Hochman previously worked for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for its Hurricane Katrina coverage. Hochman wrote the Katrina-themed book “Fourth and New Orleans,” published in 2007.

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